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Masala Chai
Black tea boiled with milk, sugar and whole spices until it is strong enough to stand up to all three. Not tea with…
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Brown Sugar Bubble Tea
Black tea and milk over chewy tapioca pearls cooked and steeped in sugar syrup. Invented in Taiwan in the 1980s, and…
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Espresso Martini
Vodka, coffee liqueur and a shot of fresh espresso shaken hard until it wears a thick hazelnut crema. It only works…
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Caipirinha
Lime muddled with sugar in the glass, filled with cachaça and crushed ice, and stirred until the outside frosts…
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Classic Mojito
White rum, lime, sugar, soda and a great deal of mint, pressed rather than pulverised. Bruise the mint too hard and…
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Classic Margarita
Three ingredients in the right proportions, shaken hard and served over ice with a half-salted rim. No mixers, no…
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Mango Lassi
Ripe mango blended with thick yogurt, a little cardamom and just enough ice to chill without watering it down. Three…
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Pisco Sour
Pisco, lime, sugar syrup and egg white shaken hard twice, poured over a fine foam and finished with three drops of…
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Negroni
Equal parts gin, Campari and sweet vermouth, stirred over ice with an orange peel. Invented in Florence in 1919 when…
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Red Wine Sangria
Spanish red wine steeped overnight with brandy, citrus and stone fruit, topped with soda only at the moment of…
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Piña Colada
Rum, coconut cream and pineapple blended with ice into something thick enough to stand a straw in. Puerto Rico's…
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French-Style Hot Chocolate
Real chocolate melted into milk and cream until it is thick enough to coat a spoon — closer to a drinking ganache…
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Iced Matcha Latte
A properly whisked iced matcha latte, with no clumps and no bitterness — the difference is entirely in sifting the…
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Chocolate Milkshake
Ice cream, milk and cocoa blended thick enough to hold a straw upright. The ratio matters far more than the…
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Cà Phê Sữa Đá
Dark roast coffee dripped slowly through a phin filter onto sweetened condensed milk, then poured over ice. Strong…
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Moroccan Mint Tea
Gunpowder green tea and a large bunch of spearmint, sweetened heavily and poured from height into small glasses…
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Cold Brew Coffee
Coarse coffee steeped in cold water for eighteen hours and filtered, giving a concentrate that is smooth, low in…
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Horchata
Rice and cinnamon soaked overnight, blended and strained into a sweet, milky drink served over ice. The standard…
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Thai Iced Tea
Strongly brewed spiced black tea, sweetened with condensed milk and poured over ice with a float of evaporated milk…
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Bloody Mary
Vodka, tomato juice and a long list of savoury seasonings, built in the glass and rolled rather than shaken. The…
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Mulled Wine
Red wine warmed with citrus, sugar and whole spices, never allowed to boil. A European winter market fixture, and…
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Michelada
Beer, lime, hot sauce and Worcestershire over ice in a chilli-salt-rimmed glass. Mexico's answer to the Bloody Mary…
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Turkish Coffee
Finely powdered coffee simmered with water and sugar in a cezve until a thick foam rises, poured grounds and all and…
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Salep
A thick, hot Turkish winter drink of milk cooked with orchid root flour until it coats a spoon, dusted heavily with…
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Ayran
Yoghurt, cold water and salt, whisked until foaming — the Turkish drink that goes with everything grilled, and the…
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Sujeonggwa
Korean cinnamon and ginger punch, simmered dark and served ice cold with soft dried persimmon and pine nuts floating…
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Agua de Jamaica
Dried hibiscus steeped and sweetened into a deep crimson agua fresca — sharp, floral and served in a jug over ice on…
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Café de Olla
Coffee simmered in a clay pot with cinnamon and piloncillo, the way it is made over a fire — sweet, spiced and never…
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Tepache
Pineapple skins fermented with piloncillo and cinnamon for a few days into a lightly fizzy, barely alcoholic drink —…
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Sorrel Drink
Trinidadian Christmas in a glass: dried sorrel steeped with ginger, clove and orange peel, sweetened and usually…
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Sobolo
The Ghanaian hibiscus drink, steeped with pineapple skin, ginger and cloves and drunk cold from a bottle on any hot…
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Bread Kvass
Rye bread, water, sugar and yeast left to work for two days into a dark, faintly sour, barely alcoholic drink that…
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Bandrek
Indonesian ginger drink from the hills of West Java, simmered hard with palm sugar, pandan, lemongrass and cloves…
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Fresh Lemonade
Made properly, with a sugar syrup rather than sugar stirred into cold water, and with some of the zest oil in it…
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Old Fashioned
Whiskey, sugar, bitters and a great deal of stirring. No muddled fruit, no soda — the cocktail is the spirit…
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Aperol Spritz
Three, two, one: prosecco, Aperol, soda. Built in the glass over a great deal of ice, with the prosecco going in…
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Masala Chai Latte
Whole spices cracked and simmered in water first, then milk and tea added in stages. Nothing from a syrup bottle…
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Eggnog
A cooked custard base rather than raw eggs, spiked and chilled overnight. Thick enough to coat a spoon and nothing…
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Glögg
Swedish mulled wine, served with raisins and blanched almonds in the bottom of the glass and a spoon to eat them…
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Hot Toddy
Whisky, honey, lemon and hot water, in that order and in the right proportions. A drink first and a remedy second…
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Irish Coffee
Hot sweetened coffee under a float of cream so lightly whipped it pours. The drink is taken through the cream…
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Mulled Cider
Dry cider warmed with apple, orange and whole spices, sweetened only just enough. Lighter than mulled wine and…
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Vietnamese Egg Coffee
Cà phê trứng: a whipped custard of egg yolk and condensed milk floated on strong Vietnamese coffee. It sounds wrong…
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Nimbu Pani
Indian lemonade, with black salt and roasted cumin alongside the sugar. Savoury, sour and far more refreshing in…
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Kombucha
Sweet tea fermented by a culture into something sour and lightly fizzy, then bottled with fruit for a second ferment…
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Jallab
Date and grape molasses loosened with rose water and iced, then floated with soaked pine nuts and raisins. Sold on…
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Karkade
Dried hibiscus steeped into a drink the colour of ink and served either scalding or over ice. Sour, tannic and the…
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Sobia
A cold white drink of soaked rice and coconut blended with milk and sugar, sold from urns in Ramadan. Cloudy, sweet…
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Asab
Sugarcane juice, pressed and drunk within minutes. Nothing is added and nothing can be — it oxidises so fast that…
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Thé aux Pignons
Green tea boiled hard with mint and sugar and poured over a spoonful of pine nuts sitting in the glass. The nuts…
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Bellini
White peach purée and prosecco, in that order and in that proportion. Invented at Harry's Bar in Venice and named…
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Thandai
Almonds, melon seeds, pepper and rose ground into cold milk. Holi's drink, and the best thing to hand someone in a…
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Aam Panna
Green mangoes boiled, pulped and mixed with cumin, mint and black salt. Sour, savoury and the colour of a lawn.
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Jaljeera
Cumin, mint, tamarind and black salt in cold water. Fifteen minutes, no cooking, and it tastes like nothing else.
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Chaas
Yoghurt thinned with water and seasoned with cumin, ginger and curry leaf. Ten minutes, and it is what an Indian…
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South Indian Filter Coffee
Coffee dripped slowly through a two-part steel filter, mixed with hot milk and poured between two vessels until it…
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Hong Kong Milk Tea
Strong black tea pulled repeatedly through a cloth bag and mixed with evaporated milk. Twenty minutes and it should…
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